''Death in Freeport'' is a 2000 role-playing game adventure published by
Green Ronin Publishing
Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Chris Pramas and Nicole Lindroos, they have published several role-playing game–related products. They won several awards for their games includin ...
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Contents
''Death in Freeport'' is the first in the Freeport series of adventures.
Publication history
Three different companies started
d20 System publishing off by releasing their own adventures on August 10, 2000: ''The Wizard's Amulet'' (2000) from
Necromancer Games
Necromancer Games was an American publisher of role-playing games. With offices in Seattle, Washington and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the company specialized in material for the d20 System. Most of its products were released under the Open Game Lic ...
, said to be the first d20 product as it was published as a PDF a few minutes into August 10 and was the first widely released d20 supplement); ''Three Days to Kill'' (2000) from
Atlas Games
Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games. Its founder and current president is John Nephew.
History
When Atlas Games did not have the finances to publish '' On the Edge'' (1994), they partnered with J ...
which technically beat out ''Amulet'' because it was available locally a week early but went on sale officially that year at
Gen Con
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which earned it the title of the first print d20 book; and ''Death in Freeport'' (2000) trailed ''Three Days'' by a few hours but also went on sale at Gen Con on August 10.
''Death in Freeport'' was Green Ronin's lead d20 offering, and went on sale on the same day as the new 3E ''
Player's Handbook
The ''Player's Handbook'' (spelled ''Players Handbook'' in first edition ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' (''AD&D'')) is a book of rules for the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). It does not contain the complete set of ru ...
'' (2000) for ''
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules ...
'', and according to Shannon Appelcline commenting on the first three d20 system adventures, "Of the three adventures, ''Death in Freeport'' may be the most notable. It defined a new campaign setting, the city of Freeport, and was also the first in a connected trilogy of d20 adventures. ''Death in Freeport'' was also a different sort of D&D adventure: it played like d20 crossed with Chaosium's ''Call of Cthulhu'' (1981), complete with cultists, ancient gods, and even player handouts. The crossover was quite explicit, with cultists of Yig and the Yellow Sign being among series antagonists."
The original adventure was soon followed by the rest of the trilogy over the next several months, ''Terror in Freeport'' (2000) and ''Madness in Freeport'' (2001).
Reception
''Death in Freeport'' won the
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 aw ...
s for "Best Roleplaying Adventure of 2000".
''Death in Freeport'' won the 2001
ENnie Award
The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role-playing game (RPG) products (including game-related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators. The awards were created in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World ...
for "Best Adventure".
Reviews
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Pyramid
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Polyhedron
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'' #147 (July, 2001)
*''Envoyer'' (German) (Issue 67 - May 2002)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20020622105459fw_/http://www.envoyer.de/ausgaben/2002/05/TodTerrorundWahnsinninFreihafen.html]
References
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D20 System adventures
ENnies winners
Fantasy campaign settings
Origins Award winners
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 2000